[gentoo-user] Questions about systemd logging

[Robin Atwood]

I have temporarily shelved my problem with mounting since my work-around seems 
adequate. But I have some questions about logging. Journald works fine but 
what am I supposed to see on the main console? All I can see is a few kernel 
messages which cease after the lvm service completes. There are no service 
starting messages and no login prompt appears. The other ttys have a banner 
and prompt as usual.

Secondly I want to merge the journal into syslog-ng for post-processing. I 
have the correct syslog-ng service defined and syslog-ng.conf has been 
modified to use /run/systemd/journald/syslog as a source unix-stream. But I 
see no systemd messages appearing. In the Gentoo package all the journald.conf 
statements are commented out, which ones are necessary to do what I want. I 
have tried the "logging_to_syslog/kmsg" options but to no effect, but there 
are many!

TIA
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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